New Tour Dates Announced in the Tour section!
US Tour Dates Being Rescheduled For September!
Kill Ritual is rescheduling our US Tour for September. Dates Soon!
Kill Ritual US Tour Cancelled!
The Kill Ritual US Tour has been cancelled due to the serious injury of our new guitarist Mehl’s left arm that makes it impossible for him to make a fist let alone play any form of guitar. Mehl will be in a cast for 3 weeks with 2-3 weeks of physical therapy after that putting us well past the start date of the tour. He’s done everything possible to make the recovery in time, but it’s not going to happen. Kill Ritual is a 2 guitar band and we don’t feel comfortable presenting our music without the aural assault a 2 guitar attacks brings. We tried to find a last minute replacement to no avail. We tried to make it work in rehearsals with one guitar and it didn’t. The band feels like shit about this and we apologize to our booking company Metal Thunder Entertainment/Scott Clute, all the venues and promoter, other support bands, our management Rock N Growl, our label Scarlet Records and last but definitely not least the people that planned on attending the shows for the cancellation. Shit definitely does happen…..
U R The Answer
It’s been two weeks since I fractured my kneecap. The doctor in the hospital told me that we needed to operate immediately. He changed his tune without missing a beat when he found out I didn’t have medical insurance. Which is fine because I wasn’t going to be operated on anyway. I believed that this could heal through alternative means. I am a Reiki Practitioner and I have other friends in Reiki, Cranial Sacral, Polarity and even those that believe in the power of prayer alone. I believe 100% that the body can heal itself. It’s believing that the body can heal itself, that is the key. If you don’t believe it, then it won’t. Pretty much like anything else in life.
Well, I can walk without the crutches now. I’m going to set up the bicycle trainer in my bedroom and start working my leg to get the stiffness out.
Why am I telling you this?
I’m telling you this because I want you to trust your gut. It’s easy to get caught up in F.E.A.R. (False Evidence Appearing Real) when a ‘professional’ tells you ‘this is the only way’. It’s the only way to them maybe, but its not the only way. Trust your gut. Listen to your heart. Meditate. Follow your own dream and focus on the outcome, not the circumstance.
As Michael Bernard Beckwith says in his song ‘U R The Answer’ – ‘And then there is this thing called Focus. This willingness and ability to stay the course.’
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Happy New Year!
I realized that I haven’t made a blog post since November. It’s not like I have nothing to say… quite the contrary, I have SO much to say. Let me start by wishing you all a Happy New Year and I know it will be a good one for you because you say so. 🙂
Lets start from November if I may. I rode my motorcycle out to Sedona, Arizona. It was a very spur of the moment Thanksgiving treat to myself. I had four days off and I got the itch. Well it seems that quite a few people got that ‘itch’ as well. After an eight hour motorcycle ride from Santa Monica, CA to Sedona, AZ you would think that I would be exhausted. Not! I was totally jazzed to hit the 5000 ft. elevation and cool air. I got my hotel room and headed out for a bite to eat. The bar I ate at was having Karaoke and I couldn’t resist. It was fun hanging with the locals. The next morning I put on my hiking shoes and headed up the road determined to hike Bell Rock. I figured I would stop in for a cup of Joe first at this funky bicycle shop aptly named ‘Sedona Bike & Bean’.
This is where I met Socrates and Angela who in turned introduced me to Peter Alan Gersten. Now Peter has an interesting story. Peter is a retired Deputy Public Defender from New York City who moved to Sedona in 2000. His goal was to get a certain number of people up to the top of Bell Rock before December 21st, which he did indeed accomplish. I, being one of those people. Most of the people who set out to Sedona to accomplish this feat had planned this venture. I had not. Mine was a chance meeting, or was it? Peter believes that I was mean’t to be there at that time and I tend to believe him. When we hiked up to the top of Bell Rock we were up there for quite a bit of time. A couple of hours if memory serves. It was extremely peaceful as I sat there meditating and understanding who I am and what my vision truly is. The letters were written there in the sky for me to see. Trust. Yeah. Trust.
I got to test this Trust issue I have while riding back to L.A.. At one of the rest stops, somewhere around Joshua Tree I believe, I stopped for gas and then headed down the highway. Well… about 15 miles down the road I realized that I left my backpack at the gas station. That backpack had my MacBook Pro, my QR3HD recorder, my wallet, my journal… basically, my life. I turned my bike around and started heading back to the rest area, reminding myself of my vision on top of Bell Rock. To trust. Everything happens for a reason and everything is perfect. I maintained that until I got to the gas station. My backpack was not where I left it. Shit! Ok. Calm down. Trust Dave. Trust. I walked into the station and there behind the counter was my backpack. The attendent saw me leave it. I am indeed blessed. Very much so. 🙂
On December 20th I gathered together with two of my friends; Yvonne and Sara. We did an all night meditation at the Yoga Nest. At 3:11am we were awake and meditating. Saying our prayers for the transitional shift that was happening at that time. It was beautiful and we were on fire the next day.
Now it is the New Year. 2013. I am ready for everything to come. I am open to all of the possibilities that will be presented to me. I will post more about what is happening musically with me soon. For the meantime please check out these links below.
Rage of Angels
Soon to come…
Various projects I’m working on including my time out in New York working with Eighth Day Nation.
Peace,
D
Living in the ‘Now’
People say that I’m ‘lucky’. I wouldn’t really call it luck. I would just say that I’ve focused on the positive most of the time and that I have surrounded myself with powerful people. The only way I know how to focus on the positive is because I’ve experienced a lot of negative in my life.
Trial and error.
All of the relationships of my past could look like failures to some, but to me they were (in hindsight) great experiences to learn more about myself. We all have patterns that we can choose to look at and learn, or we can choose to blame on somebody else. Our choice. We’ve all chosen both somewhere in our lives until we’ve realized that we were just hurting ourselves.
Why am I writing this today? We have a New Moon Solar Eclipse at 21 degrees Scorpio. From what I’ve heard there will be profound shifts of value and depth in consciousness. I usually take this kind of information with a grain of salt, but over the past few months my values have been changing. I’ve been realizing who I am and honing in on that. Some of them have been hard lessons, some of them very fluid. I’ve watched people in my life go completely bonkers and others more focused. It’s been an interesting process for all of us.
Living in the ‘Now’ has probably been the most challenging thing. I’ve had a tendency to look at my past and this hasn’t served me in the least. My brain automatically reminds me of how I’ve failed in the past, and therefore it sabotages anything new from transpiring. My new experience of myself is focusing on right now. What is going on right now? How do I feel right now? Who am I right now?
Who are you right now?